Thomas E. Delahanty II, Maine legal titan, dies at 75
Delahanty, who was a U.S. attorney for the District of Maine under 2 presidents, served as a defense attorney, prosecutor and judge for more than 4 decades, carrying on a family tradition in law.
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Former U.S. attorney Thomas Delahanty II at his home in Falmouth in 2017. Delahanty served as the U.S. Attorney for Maine from 2010 to 2017. Derek Davis/Staff Photographer
Thomas E. Delahanty II, a legal titan in Maine whose career as a prosecutor and judge spanned more than four decades, died Monday. He was 75.
James Howaniec, a defense attorney and Lewiston’s former mayor, said Delahanty died after battling pancreatic cancer.